Hi, Strangers... (also a Raju update) :)

[OneGrassRoot]

The last year has kicked my butt, but I'm trying to emerge from the rubble. I'm going to try to start posting uplifting stuff here again, especially since I see Hermite's butt has been kicked, too (big hugs to you, my friend, if you see this), and she isn't able to post.

Lots of gratitude to those of you keeping hope alive.



BTW, as part of my emergence from the rubble, I'm finally getting several of the puzzle pieces of a vision I've been working toward for years up and running. One of them is Community Good, a digital magazine with curated and original content highlighting good news from around the world; your "local good" is coming soon. Good news, good projects, good ideas, good people.

I'm posting things there, and distributing across social media. Like the update below on Raju the elephant. (Notice how at the end of the article I added a listing for Wildlife SOS India, the group who rescued Raju, to the Find Help|Find Good Directory, the second puzzle piece; Wishadoo!'s upgrade and reconfiguration is next. See how symbiotic those two pieces of the puzzle are? Nice, neat, organized GOOD.) It's too time consuming to recreate the posts here, so if it bothers anyone that I give a preview and then a link to the post at Community Good, just let me know.

I'm sure many have endured ups and downs over the last year or so, and I know we lost people altogether. All I can say is godspeed to us all.....


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THE GOOD NEWS is that Raju has now been free for one week. He has been introduced to Phoolkali, the first member of what will be his new elephant family. The two met for the first time and enjoyed a meal together. Eventually they will run free within the conservation area and become a herd.


FULL PIECE HERE:
http://communitygood.org/animals-planet-wildlife/good-update-on-raju-the-rescued-elephant/